Les feuilles mortes

The autumn leaves are beginning to fall. Mais elles ne se remassent pas à la pelle, pas encore. It's way too early to start raking. I usually wait until most, if not all, of the leaves come down before I deal with them. Normally we move the big maple leaves out front onto the garden plots to keep weeds down over winter. Some of the linden tree leaves out back get used that way, too. The leaves that fall on the grass will get mowed into mulch.

Autumn leaves getting ready to drop.

On Tuesday, Ken had some errands to run, so I did not cut logs. I don't want to use the big chainsaw when I'm home alone. So instead, I worked on cutting down spent flower stalks and grinding them up for the compost pile. They're the tall yellow sunflowers I posted about recently, and we have two patches of them. When the flowers fade, they don't look so nice, so I cut them off at about a foot high. They're very invasive and in one place had started to grow into our pathways, so I pulled as many of them as I could, along with their webby roots. Into the chipper they went, then onto the compost pile.